150 THE LANDED INTEREST. 



Facilities Act provides for such a change, and it has been 



given by 



Govern- recommended by an influential committee of 



ment for 



purchase the House of Commons that enlarged facilities 



in Ireland. 



for this object should be afforded in that country 



by an increased proportion of the price being 



advanced out of the public Treasury. If the 



Ifextended security for repayment of the advance is good 



to England 



and Scot- in Ireland, it would be doubly good in Eng- 

 land would 

 be more land and Scotland, and if the infusion amongst 



rapidly ap- 

 propriated, the body of landowners in the sister country 



of some proportion of the Irish tenantry is 

 regarded as beneficial, much more would such 

 advantageous results be likely to be secured 

 by the addition of a body of more educated 

 and enterprising agriculturists to the landlords 

 of Great Britain. There is not a single reason 

 in favour of exceptional aid from the public 

 Treasury for Ireland that is not equally ap- 

 plicable to the rest of the United Kingdom, 

 and, if such aid can be given without injury 

 to other interests, the extension of the " Bright 

 Clauses " of the Irish Land Act to England 

 and Scotland would be followed by a much more 

 rapid appropriation of their advantages to the 



